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utinam sustineretis modicum quid insipientiae meae sed etsubportate me

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aemulor enim vos Dei aemulatione despondi enim vos uni virovirginem castam exhibere Christo

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timeo autem ne sicut serpens Evam seduxit astutia sua itacorrumpantur sensus vestri et excidant a simplicitate quae estin Christo

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nam si is qui venit alium Christum praedicat quem nonpraedicavimus aut alium spiritum accipitis quem non accepistisaut aliud evangelium quod non recepistis recte pateremini

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existimo enim nihil me minus fecisse magnis apostolis

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et si inperitus sermone sed non scientia in omnibus autemmanifestatus sum vobis

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aut numquid peccatum feci me ipsum humilians ut vosexaltemini quoniam gratis evangelium Dei evangelizavi vobis

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alias ecclesias expoliavi accipiens stipendium administerium vestrum

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et cum essem apud vos et egerem nulli onerosus fui nam quodmihi deerat suppleverunt fratres qui venerunt a Macedonia et inomnibus sine onere me vobis servavi et servabo

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est veritas Christi in me quoniam haec gloria noninfringetur in me in regionibus Achaiae

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quare quia non diligo vos Deus scit

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quod autem facio et faciam ut amputem occasionem eorum quivolunt occasionem ut in quo gloriantur inveniantur sicut et nos

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nam eiusmodi pseudoapostoli operarii subdolitransfigurantes se in apostolos Christi

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et non mirum ipse enim Satanas transfigurat se in angelumlucis

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non est ergo magnum si ministri eius transfigurentur velutministri iustitiae quorum finis erit secundum opera ipsorum

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iterum dico ne quis me putet insipientem alioquin velutinsipientem accipite me ut et ego modicum quid glorier

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quod loquor non loquor secundum Dominum sed quasi ininsipientia in hac substantia gloriae

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quoniam multi gloriantur secundum carnem et ego gloriabor

11:19
libenter enim suffertis insipientes cum sitis ipsisapientes

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sustinetis enim si quis vos in servitutem redigit si quisdevorat si quis accipit si quis extollitur si quis in faciemvos caedit

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secundum ignobilitatem dico quasi nos infirmi fuerimus inquo quis audet in insipientia dico audeo et ego

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Hebraei sunt et ego Israhelitae sunt et ego semen Abrahaesunt et ego

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ministri Christi sunt minus sapiens dico plus ego inlaboribus plurimis in carceribus abundantius in plagis supramodum in mortibus frequenter

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a Iudaeis quinquies quadragenas una minus accepi

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ter virgis caesus sum semel lapidatus sum ter naufragiumfeci nocte et die in profundo maris fui

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in itineribus saepe periculis fluminum periculis latronumpericulis ex genere periculis ex gentibus periculis in civitatepericulis in solitudine periculis in mari periculis in falsisfratribus

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in labore et aerumna in vigiliis multis in fame et siti inieiuniis multis in frigore et nuditate

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praeter illa quae extrinsecus sunt instantia mea cotidianasollicitudo omnium ecclesiarum

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quis infirmatur et non infirmor quis scandalizatur et egonon uror

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si gloriari oportet quae infirmitatis meae sunt gloriabor

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Deus et Pater Domini Iesu scit qui est benedictus insaecula quod non mentior

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Damasci praepositus gentis Aretae regis custodiebatcivitatem Damascenorum ut me conprehenderet

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et per fenestram in sporta dimissus sum per murum eteffugi manus eius

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011:001
Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.

011:002
For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

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But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

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For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.

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For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.

011:006
But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.

011:007
Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?

011:008
I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service.

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And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.

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As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.

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Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.

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But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.

011:013
For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.

011:014
And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.

011:015
Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

011:016
I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.

011:017
That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.

011:018
Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.

011:019
For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.

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For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.

011:021
I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.

011:022
Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.

011:023
Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.

011:024
Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.

011:025
Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;

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In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;

011:027
In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

011:028
Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.

011:029
Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?

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If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.

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The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.

011:032
In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:

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And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.

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